explanation
This keyword was found on the following pages:
Achinstein, P. 1977. What is an explanation?
American Philosophical Quarterly
14:
1—15.
Keyword:
explanation.
Achinstein, P. 1983.
Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science.
Oxford: Clarendon.
Keywords:
explanation •
law.
Achinstein, P./Barker, S.F., eds. 1969.
The Legacy of Logical Positivism: Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Keywords:
explanation •
logical empiricism •
logical positivism.
Apostel, L. 1974.
Matière et forme: Introduction à une épistémologie réaliste.
Gand: Communication and Cognition.
Keywords:
causality •
epistemology •
explanation •
philosophy of science •
scientific realism.
Apostel, L./Cellérier, G./Desanti, D.T., et al. 1973.
L'explication dans les sciences.
Paris: Flammarion.
Keywords:
explanation •
philosophy of science.
Bekoff, M. 1992. Description and explanation: A plea for plurality.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
15:
269—270.
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description •
explanation.
Bekoff, M./Jamieson, D., eds. 1990.
Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior.
2 vols. Boulder: Westview Press.
Keywords:
explanation •
interpretation.
Brandon, R.N. 1997.
Does biology have laws? The experimental evidence.
In , PSA 1996, vol. 2,
444—457.
Keywords:
biological laws •
contingent regularities •
experimental practice •
explanation •
law.
Clark, A.J. 1996.
Happy couplings: Emergence and explanatory interlock.
In
Boden, The Philosophy of Artificial Life,
#—#.
Keywords:
emergence •
explanation.
Coffa, J.A. 1967. Feyerabend on explanation and reduction.
Journal of Philosophy
64:
500—508.
Keywords:
explanation •
Feyerabend •
reduction.
Elster, J. 1983.
Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Keywords:
explanation •
philosophy of social science •
technical change.
Elster, J. 1987. The nature and scope of rational-choice explanation.
Revue Roumaine des Sciences Sociales. Série de Philosophie et Logique
31:
51—65.
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explanation •
rational choice.
Elster, J. 1993.
Fullness and parsimony: Notes on creativity.
In
Kemal/Gaskell, Explanation and Value in the Arts,
146—172.
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creativity •
explanation •
fullness •
parsimony •
values.
Elster, J. 1994.
The nature and scope of rational-choice explanation.
In
Martin/McIntyre, Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science,
311—322.
Keywords:
explanation •
rational choice.
Feyerabend, P.K. 1962.
Explanation, reduction, and empiricism.
In
Feigl/Maxwell, Scientific Explanation,
28—97.
Keywords:
empiricism •
explanation •
reduction.
Heidelberger, M. 1993.
Was erklärt uns die Informatik? Versuch einer wissenschaftstheoretischen Standortbestimmung.
In
Schefe et al., Informatik und Philosophie,
13—30.
Keywords:
explanation •
information •
nature of information science •
philosophy of science.
Hendriks-Jansen, H.
1993. Natural kinds, autonomous robots, and history of use. In #, ed., Proceedings of the 1993 European Conference on Artificial Life, 440÷450.
Keywords:
artificial intelligence •
ethology •
explanation •
history of use •
interactive emergence •
Mataric •
Millikan •
natural kinds •
robotics •
situated activity.
Hendriks-Jansen, H. 1994.
In praise of interactive emergence, or why explanations don't have to wait for implementations.
In
Brooks/Maes, Artificial Life IV,
70—79.
Keywords:
artificial intelligence •
ethology •
explanation •
implementation •
interactive emergence.
Hendriks-Jansen, H. 1994. Brain-models, mind-models, and models of situated behaviour.
AISB Quarterly
87:
29—35.
Keywords:
analogy •
artificial intelligence •
computational models •
explanation.
Hull, D.L. 1981.
Historical narratives and integrating explanations.
In
Sumner/Slater/Wilson, Pragmatism and Purpose,
172—188.
Keywords:
explanation •
narrative •
unification.
Keil, F.C./Wilson, R.A., eds. 2000.
Explanation and Cognition.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Keyword:
explanation.
Keller, E.F. 1998. Structures of heredity. Review of [Jablonka/Lamb 1995].
Biology and Philosophy
13:
113—118.
Keywords:
computability •
development •
explanation •
reduction.
Keller, E.F. 1999. Understanding development.
Biology and Philosophy
14:
321—330.
Keywords:
computability •
explanation •
reductionism.
Keller, E.F. 2000.
Making sense of life: Explanation in developmental biology.
In
Creath/Maienschein, Biology and Epistemology,
#—#.
Keywords:
computability •
explanation •
reductionism.
Kincaid, H. 1988. Supervenience and explanation.
Synthese
77:
251—281.
Keywords:
explanation •
supervenience.
Kitcher, P.S./Salmon, W., eds. 1989.
Scientific Explanation.
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 13. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Keywords:
explanation •
philosophy of science.
Koestler, A./Smythies, J.R., eds. 1969.
Beyond Reductionism.
London: Hutchinson.
Keywords:
emergence •
explanation •
holons •
reduction •
unity of science.
Maynard Smith, J. 1990. Explanation in biology.
Philosophy (Supplement)
27:
65—72.
Keywords:
explanation •
explanation in biology.
Mayr, E. 1969. Scientific explanation and conceptual framework.
Journal of the History of Biology
2:
123—128.
Keywords:
autonomy •
explanation •
history of biology •
reduction.
Mitchell, S.D. 1995. Function, fitness and disposition 1.
Biology and Philosophy
10:
39—54.
Keywords:
dispositions •
explanation •
fitness •
function.
Pitt, J.C., ed. 1988.
Theories of Explanation .
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keywords:
explanation •
philosophy of science.
Radick, G. 2000. Two explanations of evolutionary progress.
Biology and Philosophy
15:
475—491.
[abstract][pdf.]
Keywords:
evolutionary progress •
explanation •
natural selection •
styles of reasoning.
Riedl, R. 1987.
Begriff und Welt: Biologische Grundlagen des Erkennens und Begreifens.
Berlin/Hamburg: Parey.
[cc]
Keywords:
explanation •
understanding.
Riedl, R. 2000.
Strukturen der Komplexität: Eine Morphologie des Erkennens und Erklärens.
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.
Keywords:
Bauplan •
causality •
complexity •
description •
explanation •
gestalt perception •
hierarchy •
homology.
Robinson, J.D. 1986. Reduction, explanation, and the quests of biological research.
Philosophy of Science
53:
333—353.
Keywords:
explanation •
reduction.
Rosen, R. 1982.
On a theory of transformations for cultural systems.
In
Renfrew/Rowlands/Seagraves, Theory and Explanation in Archaeology,
#—#.
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archaeology •
explanation •
theory.
Rosenberg, A. 1977. Concrete occurrences vs. explanatory facts: Mackie on the extensionality of causal statements.
Philosophical Studies
31:
133—140.
Keywords:
causality •
epistemology •
explanation •
Mackie •
philosophy of science.
Rosenberg, A. 1979. Can economic theory explain everything?
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
9:
509—529.
Keywords:
explanation •
philosohy of science.
Rosenberg, A. 1981.
The interaction of evolutionary and genetic theory.
In
Sumner/Slater/Wilson, Pragmatism and Purpose,
207—219.
Keywords:
explanation •
genetics •
reduction.
Rosenberg, A. 1982.
Causation and teleology in contemporary philosophy of science.
In
Floistad, Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, Vol. 2:,
51—86.
Keywords:
causation •
explanation •
philosohy of science •
social science •
teleology.
Rosenberg, A. 1983. Protagoras among the physicists. Critical notice of [van Fraassen 1980].
Dialogue [Canada]
22:
311—317.
Keywords:
empiricism •
explanation •
philosohy of science •
realism.
Rosenberg, A. 1997. Reductionism redux: Computing the embryo.
Biology and Philosophy
12:
445—470.
[abstract][pdf.]
Keywords:
causation •
explanation •
homeo boxes •
molecular development biology •
ontology •
physicalist antireductionism.
Ruse, M. 1971. Narrative explanation and the theory of evolution.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
1:
59—74.
Keywords:
evolutionary theory •
explanation •
narrative.
Salmon, W.C. 1984.
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Keywords:
causality •
explanation •
realism.
Salmon, W.C. 1989.
Four Decades of Scientific Explanation.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Keywords:
causality •
explanation •
realism •
unification.
Salmon, W.C. 1993. The value of scientific understanding.
Philosophica
51:
9—19.
Keywords:
causality •
explanation •
realism •
unification.
Salmon, W.C. 1998.
Causality and Explanation.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keywords:
causality •
explanation •
scientific realism.
Shelley, C. 1999. Preadaptation and the explanation of human evolution.
Biology and Philosophy
14:
65—82.
[abstract][pdf.]
Keywords:
adaptation •
explanation •
human evolution •
preadaptation •
specialization.
Skyrms, B. 1992.
Chaos and the explanatory significance of equilibrium: Strange attractors in evolutionary game dynamics; evolutionary game theory.
In
, PSA, vol. 2,,
374—396.
Keywords:
chaos •
equilibrium •
evolutionary game dynamics •
explanation •
philosophy of science •
strange attractors.
Spohn, W./van Fraassen, B.C./Skyrms, B. 1981.
Existence and Explanation: Essays Presented in Honor of Karel Lambert.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Keywords:
existence •
explanation •
metaphysics.
Stemmer, N. 1987. The hypothesis of other minds: Is it the best explanation?
Philosophical Studies
51:
109—121.
Keywords:
explanation •
other minds.
Stemmer, N. 1995. Explanatory and predictive roles of inner events: A reply to Overskeid.
Psychological Record
45:
349—354.
Keywords:
explanation •
inner events •
prediction.
Stent, G.S. 1990. Can we explain the mind? New problems, old contradictions.
Encounter
74(2):
61—67.
Keywords:
explanation •
mind.
Stephan, A. 2001.
Von der Erklärungs- zur Begründungslücke.
In
Mittelstraß, Die Zukunft des Wissens,
120—127.
Keywords:
explanation •
justification •
philosophy of science.
Sterelny, K. 1996. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology.
Biology and Philosophy
11:
193—214.
Keywords:
adaptationism •
avatars •
competition •
evolution •
explanation •
macroevolution •
optimality •
reductionism •
species selection •
species sorting.
Trout, J.D. 2002. Scientific explanation and the sense of understanding.
Philosophy of Science
69:
212—233.
Keywords:
explanation •
heuristics and biases •
realism •
understanding.
Vepsäläinen, K./Spence, J.R. 2000. Generalization in ecology and evolutionary biology: From hypothesis to paradigm.
Biology and Philosophy
15:
211—238.
[abstract][pdf.]
Keywords:
causation •
contingency •
ecology •
explanation •
generalization •
hierarchy •
life history •
mating behavior •
nested hierarchy •
scale •
sex ratios.
Vollmer, G. 1995.
Auf der Suche nach der Ordnung: Beiträge zu einem naturalistischen Welt- und Menschenbild.
Stuttgart: Hirzel.
Keywords:
algorithms •
anthropic principle •
atheism •
chaos •
computing •
emergence •
ethology •
explanation •
limits to knowledge •
naturalism •
neuroscience •
reduction •
religion •
world view.
Von Eckardt, B. 1980.
What should we expect of a general theory of explanation.
In
, PSA, vol. 1,,
319—328.
Keyword:
explanation.
Waters, C.K. 1998. Causal regularities in the biological world of contingent distributions.
Biology and Philosophy
13:
5—36.
[abstract][pdf.]
Keywords:
causality •
contingency •
essentialism •
explanation •
generalization •
laws •
natural kinds •
proximate explanation •
regularities •
ultimate explanation •
universality.
Weinberger, C. 1983.
Evolution und Ethologie. Wissenschaftstheoretische Analysen.
Wien: Springer.
Keywords:
comparative ethology •
ethology •
explanation •
homology •
information •
realism •
reduction.
Wendler, D. 1996. Innateness as an explanatory concept.
Biology and Philosophy
11:
89—116.
Keywords:
explanation •
innateness.
Wilson, F. 1985.
Explanation, Causation and Deduction.
Dordrecht: Reidel.
Keywords:
causation •
explanation •
naturalism •
philosophy of science •
subsumption.
Wilson, F. 1991.
Empiricism and Darwin's Science.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Keywords:
empiricism •
explanation •
naturalism •
philosophy of science.
Zaffron, R. 1971. Identity, subsumption, and scientific explanation.
Journal of Philosophy
68:
849—60.
Keywords:
explanation •
realism.
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